Live auction - Lot 1078
[Popular literature]
Het dobbel cabinet der christelyke wysheid.
[Antwerp?, s.n., 18th c.]
Hammer price: €
120
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
4to: 58-[2] pp. (missing 1st quire = pp. 1-8; some soiling, edges of 1st and last ff. frayed).
Contemp. limp vellum wrappers (soiled, tear at bottom lower cover). Good copy.
Unidentified edition of a very popular catechetical instruction book. The approbation is dated 15 August 1624. 28 sm. woodcuts. At the end a full-page woodcut by "ICI" (J.C. Jegher) after "EQ" (Erasmus Quellin), with circular portraits of lexicographers (i.a. Kiliaan), first used in 1639 as frontispice of C. Oudin’s "Grand dictionnaire".
Ref. Not in STCV. - Cp. E. van Heurck in De Gulden Passer (1926) n. 75.
Prov. Old entry on verso of front cover.